Skill Score: What is it good for?

Checking BF3Stats and plunked my skill score into the history chart...

SPM, KDR, WL all steadily climbing up up up... looking good, feeling good.

Then I plunk in my skill score. It looks like the heart monitor of someone who is having an over dose. As all my other indicators have improved this one has gotten considerably worse.

So I can only improve skill when I kill someone better than me? I feel like I am playing better than I ever have, but the skill score is painful to watch....

There are so many stats in BF3 and so many topics on the main forum as which ones people use to judge you as a BF3 player, and I have no idea.

My SPM isn't that great (275 I think?) and that seemed like a good judge but then I can't understand how people rock 600-700 SPM. It is literally your score per minute, so how much experience gaining actions you perform in 1 minute. So we cap a few flags and kill a few people, but if we never lose any flags, the only ways to increase your SPM are with kills and class actions such as reviving. Except capping flags and arming/blowing up MCOM stations is uber exp while kills and such arn't.

I realize that ribbons and medals also add to SPM, so kill whores with various weapons could be huge but ribbons are only every 50 medals.

It's kind of like CoD dom games where you hold a few flags, and finish a game with 4 caps. If the enemy never gets them back, it's hard to gain caps. Do people take flags, camp them out and let enemies take them back, leave and then you return to cap your flag over and over?

For the record, I have zero clue what or how the "skill" score is calculated.

I hear you about SPM. If you cap all the flags and then keep the other team from recapping them then you are cool, but still have low SPM. Now if you kill someone from inside the 'burn circle' then you get a 'flag defended' bonus... But really, how often does that happen?

Skill is its own system as I understand it. You get skill points for killling people. The higher the skill score of the other person the more skill points you get for killing them. If you are killed by lower skill scored people then your skill score will drop. For multiple updates you can see my score is -22; -30; -11, yet my SPM continues to rise and my KDR continues to go up as well.

My stats are going up but my comparative score is dropping...itis weird

I just checked my skill and it's at 342 which means nothing to me really. Battlefield is all about teamwork and capping flags. All I do is cap flags and if someone gets in my way I kill them .... or try to. Most people that care about Skill, SPM, K/D play TDM on Metro which gets sickening really fast. For me it's Conquest or nothing

CyberTwiXX wrote:

I just checked my skill and it's at 342 which means nothing to me really. Battlefield is all about teamwork and capping flags. All I do is cap flags and if someone gets in my way I kill them .... or try to. Most people that care about Skill, SPM, K/D play TDM on Metro which gets sickening really fast. For me it's Conquest or nothing

My man, you gotta play Rush sometime with a team of 30's.. Usually pretty fun.

Agreed Darkker, we definitely need to get the lads playing more Rush. Defending can be kinda boring against a crappy team and hard to win against a good team, but attacking is amazing.

Just be sure to leave your sniper rifles and jets at the door

I like bacon, unicorns, and Rush (not the band, but some songs are ok).

Lol, I can't believe I'm ranked this high at lv 20. Looks like skill ranking is pretty random.

bf3stats.com/leaderboard/ps3_elo#start_31300_CyberTwiXX

The only score that looking good for me is the quit score at 4%...I'm in the top 7%. Apparently, I don't mind getting my ass kicked...

My SPM is never going to be up there unless I change my play style. I enjoy going around the long way to cap flags to much, which of course takes a lot of time away from pulling the trigger. So be it...

Ehw where you can actually check skill score? I would be interested on how this is calculated.

Tema24 wrote:

Ehw where you can actually check skill score? I would be interested on how this is calculated.

You can check it on Battlelog in the area at the bottom of your profile where all your in-game stats like W/L, KDR, total revives, repairs etc is.

You can also probably search the official forums for "skill" and see what topics come up and if there is anything as to a formula for it.

Kk thanks Carl

Damn I want to get into a game with you guys but than I have to get up at 4:00 AM in the morning or something -.-

If you play the objective and win that takes way more skill than people who abuse the USAS or someone spawnraping with a little bird..

* You gain/loose SL based on every confrontation with another player
* Killing a highly skilled enemy gives you more points than killing someone less skilled
* Points are not transferred from a player to another, they are simply added/subtracted based on the encounter and the SL of both parts (thus, after an encounter, one part may go up 50 points while the other loses only 20)
* The SL is used for matchmaking

That would mean its easier if your just starting to get a high skill level and as you play more games this would go down?

I would think much like your KDR, it's easier to start out fresh with some skill. It's much harder to raise your KDR (and skill) as you play.

I had raised my skill to almost 550 a few nights ago yet today its down to 365? I dont really take much stock in that stat though as my spm and kdr keep rising. SPM is really all i care about.

The only stat I really care about for real is the fun I have running with you saucy bastards!

That and Knife kills, but that's a distant second